Tom Wolsky wrote:
The Event should never be on the internal system drive. It contains render files that need to be on your media drive. If the Events are on the media drive you can bring the video into the Events folder. The only time the media should not be in the Events folder is if you have the media on another fast drive.
I agree, if I was not using a laptop as my primary computer, I'd probably have everything together.
My boot/system drive is a SDD in the expressCard slot. No media goes on that, just applications and system files. I use my internal drive to hold events and projects including everything but the source media. I use time machine to back up these folders (I exclude render files and transcoded/proxy files). This lets me have regular backups of my event/project files excluding things that can easily be regenerated.
My source media is on a FW800 connected drive, which is plenty fast enough for my usage. If it isn't for a specific project, I can either generate optimized media or proxy media which lands on my internal drive. Finally, I separately have my source media backed up to NAS.
To bring this back to the original topic, my problem with the camera archive is solely because I don't have unlimited disk space where my events live; if I could choose not to copy the source media into the event from an archive, I wouldn't break it apart. Yes, I submitted a feature request. 😉
